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Saudi Film Commission Takes Part in Venice International Film Festival

The participating Saudi delegation will be headed by Film Commission CEO Eng. Abdullah Al-Eyaf
The participating Saudi delegation will be headed by Film Commission CEO Eng. Abdullah Al-Eyaf
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Saudi Film Commission Takes Part in Venice International Film Festival

The participating Saudi delegation will be headed by Film Commission CEO Eng. Abdullah Al-Eyaf
The participating Saudi delegation will be headed by Film Commission CEO Eng. Abdullah Al-Eyaf

The Saudi Film Commission will participate in the 80th Venice International Film Festival, which will take place from August 30 to September 9 in Venice, Italy.

The participating Saudi delegation will be headed by Film Commission CEO Eng. Abdullah Al-Eyaf.

The commission will host a group of international experts in a panel discussion titled "Challenges and Solutions to Marketing Non-English Films to a Global Audience" during its participation in the round-table meeting.

The commission will also promote a campaign for the Saudi film industry's notable success and development in this vital and creative field.

The Saudi Film Commission seeks to consolidate its presence and relationship with international filmmakers through dialogue sessions and bilateral meetings and to promote incentive programs to attract and encourage international film productions to film in the Kingdom.

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Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn Launch Again, Eyes Thursday

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
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Bezos' Blue Origin calls off New Glenn Launch Again, Eyes Thursday

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 11, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper/File Photo

Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin moved the launch of its New Glenn rocket from Tuesday to Thursday, Jan. 16, further pushing back its inaugural attempt to reach orbit and compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market.

The company called off its first scheduled launch on Monday after a technical issue was encountered in the lead-up to its takeoff.

The three-hour launch window opens at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT) on Thursday, Blue Origin said in a post on X, according to Reuters.

The development of New Glenn has spanned three Blue Origin CEOs and faced numerous delays as Elon Musk's SpaceX grew into an industry juggernaut with its reusable Falcon 9, the world's most active rocket.

New Glenn is more than twice as powerful as a Falcon 9 rocket and has dozens of customer launch contracts collectively worth billions of dollars lined up.

The rocket would seek to land New Glenn's first stage booster on a sea-fairing barge in the Atlantic Ocean 10 minutes after liftoff, while the rocket's second stage continues toward orbit.

"The thing we're most nervous about is the booster landing," Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, told Reuters in a pre-launch interview on Sunday. "Clearly on a first flight you could have an anomaly at any mission phase, so anything could happen.